UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGIES - COMMUNICATIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURE:

exavio
www.exavio.com
Exavio, Inc. is a privately owned company, headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Exavio provides high performance IP video-smart network devices for high quality digital media distribution throughout broadcast and post production facilities. Exavio also manufacturers IP-based streaming devices for streaming media services, such as cable VOD, nPVR and business communications solutions. This new technology vastly improves workflow and productivity as well as increased competitive advantage and revenue opportunities.
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Infinera
www.infinera.com
Infinera is a privately held optical systems company with core technology in photonic integration. Founded in early 2001 by veterans from the telecommunication and optical industries, Infinera is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
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LGC Wireless
www.lgcwireless.com
LGC Wireless, Inc. is a leading supplier of products for optimizing the deployment of metropolitan cellular, PCS and 3G networks, and for providing mobile users with reliable in-building access to high quality voice and wireless data. LGC is currently shipping product to more than 25 countries, and has provided wireless solutions in some of the world's landmark properties - Heathrow Airport, the Petronas Towers, the Venetian Hotel, the New York airports, and the 2002 Winter Games venues.
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RF Solutions
www.rf-solutions.com
RF Solutions was acquired by Anadigics, a leading supplier of wireless and broadband communications solutions, in April 2003. Prior to acquisition, RF Solutions was a fabless supplier of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) semiconductor products, and was originally headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES - HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE:

Cobalt Networks
www.sun.com/hardware/serverappliances/
Cobalt Networks completed a public offering in October 1999, and was acquired by Sun Microsystems, Inc. in December 2000. Cobalt Networks is a leading developer of network communication and application solutions that set new standards for value and ease of use. Cobalt's families of products deliver simple and scalable network server solutions to customers around the world and satisfy the communication, collaboration, and network acceleration requirements for organizations of any size. The firm was founded in 1997, and is located in Sunnyvale, California.

Ejasent
www.ejasent.com
VERITAS Software acquired Ejasent, Inc. in January 2004. Ejasent's technology, which is a key building block to enable utility computing in heterogeneous environments, dramatically improves availability and reduces costs for an IT utility. Founded in January 1999, Ejasent supplies software and technology to leading product and services companies delivering utility computing solutions to enterprises and IT services providers. The company has 13 patents pending on core technologies for building IT infrastructures that enable utility computing.
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Elemental Software
www.macromedia.com
Elemental Software was acquired by Macromedia in July 1999. Prior to acquisition, Elemental Software, Inc. independently developed and marketed software that enabled users to deliver web-based business solutions for less time and money. The Drumbeat™ product continues as part of the Macromedia product line as a popular, easy-to-use, visual-based, drag-and-drop, cross-browser web site development tool for highly interactive, dynamic, database-driven applications. The Company is located in San Francisco, California.

Infravio
www.infravio.com
Infravio is an enterprise software company that provides Global 2000 companies with a management system for XML-based web applications and enables those companies to immediately take advantage of web services. The company's unique end-to-end approach delivers a unified, comprehensive framework that manages the entire lifecycle of web services from design to deployment to run-time operations, leading to a service-oriented architecture. Infravio is headquartered in Cupertino, California.
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Synacor
www.synacor.com
Synacor enables Internet Service Providers (ISP) to easily bundle a wide variety of subscription only premium, entertainment, and value added services into their Internet access products. Synacor has integrated over 30 content and service providers into its platform, Portelus, providing great value to consumers and the most complete catalog of subscription service providers available from one source today. Portelus is private label reinforcing the brand of the ISP. It also allows them to easily bundle, provision, support, and bill for multiple services offered as part of a single rate code. Synacor's Portelus product suite is currently deployed and has achieved successes that exceed the expectations of its customers. Synacor is headquartered in Buffalo, New York.
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VERTICAL APPLICATIONS AND CONTENT:


About.com
www.about.com
About.com went public in March 1999. The company is a second generation Internet search, navigation and community site focused on providing users with relevant net links filtered by human experts. About is visited by one in five online users each month, making it one of the most popular destinations on the Net. The company was founded in 1997 and is located in New York City.
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BabyCenter.com
www.babycenter.com
BabyCenter, acquired by eToys in April 1999, creates and aggregates pregnancy and childbearing related information, presenting it as personalized Web pages and customized e-mail to a very well defined niche demographic market segment with large disposable income. The site attracts both health care providers and baby product manufacturers to draw revenues from advertisement, transactions, and custom publishing of contents. The firm was founded in 1997 and is located in San Francisco.
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Informative
www.informative.com
Informative works with major brand marketing companies to engage consumers in conversations in the consumers' own words - interactions that lead to new, actionable insights for the brand. These interactions result in opt-in relationships with self-identified brand promoters and influencers, allowing brand marketers to build successful marketing programs with engaged customers who become advocates for the brand. Informative is headquartered in Brisbane, California, with offices in Japan, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.
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Open Solutions
www.opensolutions.com
Founded by professionals in banking, enterprise data management and web-based technologies, Open Solutions provides technology, software and services that allow banks, thrifts and credit unions to compete and service their customers or members more effectively. Open Solutions' full suite of information technology products are based on open, industry-standard operating environments and relational databases. The company is located in Glastonbury, Connecticut.
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PowerBridge Technologies
www.powerbridge.com
Privately held and led by seasoned founders, PowerBridge Technologies provides Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software solutions to international trading companies in China. The company serves the six mainland regions of China where the greatest concentration of import and export business occurs. PowerBridge is headquartered in Zhuhai, China.

Sina.com
www.sina.com
Sina.com went public in April 2000. Sina.com is a global Internet media company that operates the world's largest Chinese-language destination site and the leading brand in the Chinese Internet market. Sina.com originated in 1995, and has continued to evolve since the December 1998 merger of two of the largest Chinese web sites: SINANET.com of Sunnyvale, California, and Stone Rich Sight Information Technology Company Ltd. (SRS) of Beijing. Sina.com has offices in Beijing, Taipei, Hong Kong, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
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